Young trouble maker's who wear hooded jumper's and/or large puffy FUBU jacket's, baseball caps, shiny pants and may sport chains.
Often seen loitering in front of drugstores and on stoop's and fences, harrassing passer's by.

"Check that crew of hoodlums over there."
"I ran into a group of hoods the other night. They 'rolled' me for everything I owned. Shoes, socks and underwear included."

1. My homies dad called me a hoodlum
I was like Hell nah, and I busted a cap in him

2.No More ?'s by Eazy E...Call a girl out a name, yo I ain't no lover
I'm a pimp, mack daddy, lookin for the dollar
At thirteen I bought a six-fo' Impala
Rollin, and runnin from the police
Brother don't you know you can't trust a thief or thug, convict, hoodlum or criminal...

Term originally used to describe greasers.
"Hood," is what a greasr would originally be called (the term "greaser," wasn't developed until the early 70's)
"Lum," was short for "slums(ghetto)," which was were most "greasers," would usually live.

The fan base of the Dark-Pop Alternative Rock Band, The Neighbourhood, will refer to themselves as hoodlums. The Band currently holds four people, Jesse Rutherford, Zach Abels, Jeremy Freedman, and Mikey Margott. They had a former member, Bryan Sammis, that left the Band to pursue a solo career in music. The Band became more well known through their popular song, "Sweater Weather", which hit mainstream radios.

Jenny- "Man, I love their entire album, I am a die hard hoodlum."
Connie- "Yeah, bro their music is sexy."

Biiiiiig fan of the band the american urban/rock/hip-hop/pop/indie/alternative band "The Neighbourhood" (can also be spelled The NBHD)... Hoodlum is kinda like 'directioner', 'belieber' or 'swiftie', just another band.